PRECIADO, Christopher

Christopher Bernardino Preciado

• 2011-04-13 Preciado
• 2016-10-07
• 2017-04-03

Summary

Christopher Bernardino Preciado (DOB 02/24/1976) is an Amarillo man with a long-running criminal history in Potter County, Texas. He first surfaces in available records as a shooting victim: on April 13, 2011, Preciado, then 35, was shot once in the chest during an argument among four or more people in the 1100 block — reported as the 4000 block of Dumas Drive — and was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries; the shooter was never publicly identified in the source reviewed. In October 2016, at age 40, Preciado was arrested after allegedly stealing a white Chevy pickup and fleeing from Amarillo police in a pursuit that ended with him found hiding in a shed; he was booked on Evading Arrest/Detention in a Motor Vehicle, Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, a parole violation warrant, three municipal warrants, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.

On April 3, 2017, 50-year-old Dalia Jo Soria was found with a severe upper-body injury inside a home at 1212 S.E. 7th Ave. in Amarillo; she died at the hospital shortly after. Her death was Amarillo's third homicide of 2017. On September 13, 2017, a Potter County grand jury indicted Preciado, then 41, for Soria's murder; court documents indicated he shot her. The indictment carried two felony enhancements — for Failure to Stop and Render Aid, and for Possession of a Stolen Vehicle. The disposition, trial outcome, and sentence for the murder charge were not confirmed as of this entry and require manual verification against the Potter County District Clerk's portal — see Note below.

Separately, court records confirm Preciado pleaded guilty in Potter County's 320th District Court on November 6, 2017, to Evading Arrest Detention with a Previous Conviction (Case No. 073793-D-CR) and to Possession of a Controlled Substance, Penalty Group 2, under 1 gram (Case No. 073824-D-CR, a companion case) — both State Jail Felonies stemming from the same January 6, 2017 incident — and was sentenced to 10 years TDCJ-ID on each, running concurrently. It is not yet confirmed how these 2017 convictions relate chronologically to the September 2017 murder indictment, or whether the 10-year sentences were served before, during, or independent of proceedings on the murder charge. Additional older case numbers (064313-00-A, 064323-00-Z, 059334-00-D, 055392-00-E, 055832-00-E) and more recent ones (CCCR-24-65-2, CCCR-24-66-2, and 085111-B-CR — the last confirmed as an Evading Arrest Detention w/Vehicle guilty plea in the 181st District Court on October 3, 2024, sentenced to 4 years TDCJ) also appear on Preciado's docket but have not yet been individually reviewed for this entry.

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Timeline

• 04/13/2011 - Shot once in the chest during an argument in Amarillo; hospitalized with life-threatening injuries
• 01/06/2017 - Underlying incident date for the Evading Arrest/Possession of Controlled Substance charges (073793-D-CR / 073824-D-CR)
• 04/03/2017 - Dalia Jo Soria, 50, is fatally injured at 1212 S.E. 7th Ave., Amarillo; dies at the hospital
• 10/07/2016 (published date on the arrest story; incident occurred 10/06–10/07/2016) - Arrested after fleeing police in a stolen truck; found hiding in a shed; booked on Evading Arrest/Detention in a Motor Vehicle, UUMV, a parole warrant, three municipal warrants, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia
• 06/28/2017 - Indicted in 073793-D-CR and 073824-D-CR (Evading Arrest w/Prior Conviction; Possession of Controlled Substance)
• 09/13/2017 - Indicted by a Potter County grand jury for the murder of Dalia Jo Soria, with enhancements for Failure to Stop and Render Aid and Possession of a Stolen Vehicle
• 11/06/2017 - Pleads guilty to Evading Arrest w/Prior Conviction and Possession of a Controlled Substance; sentenced to 10 years TDCJ-ID on each
• 02/08/2024 - Indicted in 085111-B-CR (Evading Arrest Detention w/Vehicle)
• 10/03/2024 - Pleads guilty in 085111-B-CR; sentenced to 4 years TDCJ

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